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The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research
The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research can provide you with a strong conceptual framework for undertaking qualitative research. As it explores inquiry and theory on the cutting edge, it shows how qualitative methodologies can be applied to family life, education, and research. Designed to demonstrate how emerging and established methodologies can advance the understanding of families and direct social change, this book is a major step in assessing the development, progress, and contributions of qualitative inquiry. Packed with useful information and innovative approaches, this volume pulls together a rich and diverse group of essays that teach readers about the complexi...
Methodological Pluralism and Qualitative Family Research
Today, there is tension between "big data" research and in-depth studies of lives. This article provides a background on in-depth studies where researchers seek to understand individual lives in all of their variations. In-depth research has a long and rich history. It respects the dignity and worth of persons and it builds understandings through relationships. Big data studies shows general tendencies of a relatively small number of variables, but cannot account for the complex meanings that persons experience in their daily lives. Both types of research provide important information.
American Working-class Literature
American Working-Class Literature is an edited collection containing over 300 oieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in a broadly historical fashion, with texts are grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class life, this volume records the literature of the working classes from the early laborers of the 1600 up until the present.
Designing and Conducting Research in Education
"The authors did an excellent job of engaging students by being empathetic to their anxieties while taking a research design course. The authors also present a convincing case of the relevancies of research in daily life by showing how information was used or misused to affect our personal and professional decisions." —Cherng-Jyh Yen, George Washington University A practice-oriented, non-mathematical approach to understanding, planning, conducting, and interpreting research in education Practical and applied, Designing and Conducting Research in Education is the perfect first step for students who will be consuming research as well as for those who will be actively involved in conducting r...
Social Work Day
This is the official program of Social Work Day 2017, held at the International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Social Work Day is the great qualitative social work get-together. Held each May at the International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in Urbana, IL, USA, Social Work Day attracts scholars from all over the world. This is the premier qualitative social work conference where scholars present cutting edge research using both traditional and innovative qualitative research methods. Norman Denzin is the director of ICQI, Dr. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Jane Gilgun is the organizer of Social Work Day. Dr. Gilgun is professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.
On Being a Shit: Unkind Deeds and Cover-Ups in Everyday Life
IN THIS BOOK, PROFESSOR JANE GILGUN proposes a theory of being a shit and tests it on a variety of stories. She ends with a revised theory and in the process discovers principles of how to build bridges after you have done something unkind and dishonest. Read this book and you will be ready to dethrone the next person who dumps on you. For those who aspire to be shits, this book is a step-by-step guide. For those who want to be accountable, this book shows how. A great gift for put-upon relatives and friends and a humorous hint to troublesome people in your life. This book also shows how to do qualitative theory-testing, helpful to graduate students and seasoned researchers. Another version uses asterisks in key places and is at www.lulu.com/content/2239317
Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Qualitative Research Methods - collection, organization, and analysis strategies This text shows novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data and then present their results to the scientific community. The book stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor.
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.
Handbook of Feminist Research
The second edition of the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, presents both a theoretical and practical approach to conducting social science research on, for, and about women. The Handbook enables readers to develop an understanding of feminist research by introducing a range of feminist epistemologies, methodologies, and methods that have had a significant impact on feminist research practice and women's studies scholarship. The Handbook continues to provide a set of clearly defined research concepts that are devoid of as much technical language as possible. It continues to engage readers with cutting edge debates in the field as well as the practical applications and issues for those whose research affects social policy and social change. It also expands on the wealth of interdisciplinary understanding of feminist research praxis that is grounded in a tight link between epistemology, methodology and method. The second edition of this Handbook will provide researchers with the tools for excavating subjugated knowledge on women's lives and the lives of other marginalized groups with the goals of empowerment and social change.
Tools for Strengths-Based Assessment and Evaluation
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